iPhone 6...

Google keeps permanent track of everything you do. Everywhere you shopped, exactly what you bought, exactly when you bought it. No thanks.

has anyone successful moved from itunes to android? itunes is really the only reason I have an iphone - I don't know how/if I could keep all my purchased itunes music.

and how do you buy music on android?

cluppert wrote:

has anyone successful moved from itunes to android? itunes is really the only reason I have an iphone - I don't know how/if I could keep all my purchased itunes music.

and how do you buy music on android?

Yes, I use Google Music, I was able to transfer everything in my library in a day (its completely cloud based). Just search Google Music Manager and it will help you get started.

Nike App wrote:

Google keeps permanent track of everything you do. Everywhere you shopped, exactly what you bought, exactly when you bought it. No thanks.

LOL! and you think apple doesn't do this??

uvuvojhb wrote:

Nike App wrote:

Google keeps permanent track of everything you do. Everywhere you shopped, exactly what you bought, exactly when you bought it. No thanks.

LOL! and you think apple doesn't do this??

It doesn't. They explicitly stated so in their keynote. Apple makes money off of hardware, while Google makes money off of advertising. I like both companies, and am invested in both, but they have very different business models.

To your earlier point - yes, I realize that NFC payments and Google Wallet exists. Since it's inception, I've seen it used once. That's my point.

Apple Investor wrote:

uvuvojhb wrote:

LOL! and you think apple doesn't do this??

It doesn't. They explicitly stated so in their keynote. Apple makes money off of hardware, while Google makes money off of advertising. I like both companies, and am invested in both, but they have very different business models.

To your earlier point - yes, I realize that NFC payments and Google Wallet exists. Since it's inception, I've seen it used once. That's my point.

Can you guys share WHERE you use Android pay system and Google wallet to make purchases? I've never tried using this technology so never look for it. Are there certain stores or chains that are most likely to have this available?

Apple Investor wrote:

uvuvojhb wrote:

LOL! and you think apple doesn't do this??

It doesn't. They explicitly stated so in their keynote. Apple makes money off of hardware, while Google makes money off of advertising. I like both companies, and am invested in both, but they have very different business models.

To your earlier point - yes, I realize that NFC payments and Google Wallet exists. Since it's inception, I've seen it used once. That's my point.

See here for more on this:

"Apple doesn’t save your transaction information. With Apple Pay, your payments are private. Apple doesn’t store the details of your transactions so they can’t be tied back to you. Your most recent purchases are kept in Passbook for your convenience, but that’s as far as it goes."

Google makes money by selling information about you to advertisers. Google scans every email in gmail, including images and attachments. Google caught some, about a month ago, sending nude images of underage girls through gmail. That Google can scan an image and determine nudity, and even age, is quite an amazing technology.

joho wrote:

Can you guys share WHERE you use Android pay system and Google wallet to make purchases? I've never tried using this technology so never look for it. Are there certain stores or chains that are most likely to have this available?

Anywhere that has a paypass logo (its a logo with a hand holding a card), I've used it mostly at Best Buy.

joho wrote:

Apple Investor wrote:

It doesn't. They explicitly stated so in their keynote. Apple makes money off of hardware, while Google makes money off of advertising. I like both companies, and am invested in both, but they have very different business models.

To your earlier point - yes, I realize that NFC payments and Google Wallet exists. Since it's inception, I've seen it used once. That's my point.

Can you guys share WHERE you use Android pay system and Google wallet to make purchases? I've never tried using this technology so never look for it. Are there certain stores or chains that are most likely to have this available?

Apple Pay will take off, googles won't.

1) almost all the money in the US is owned by iPhone owners. If you took cumulative net worth iPhone owners would have something like 99% excluding top 1% billionaire types. They have maps by income and IPhone is almost the entire market in the high income areas. That's a fact, not being elitist,

2) Many droids aren't safe for one in comparison when it comes to viruses. Google has tried to clean up their App Store but they still have a ways to go

3) fragmentation will always be a droid problem

A major reason for this Apple developing partnering with major companies. Apple said they had agreements in place with firms that represent 83% of ALL credit card payments (AMEX, MasterCard, VISA), and most of the major banks (CITI, Chase, BofA, etc.). They are also partnering with major retailers.To make a system work, partnering if key. Google needs to do the same as Apple to achieve significant use of their pay system.

Mrr82 wrote:

Apple Pay will take off, googles won't.

Mrr82 wrote:

Apple Pay will take off, googles won't.

1) almost all the money in the US is owned by iPhone owners. If you took cumulative net worth iPhone owners would have something like 99% excluding top 1% billionaire types. They have maps by income and IPhone is almost the entire market in the high income areas. That's a fact, not being elitist,

2) Many droids aren't safe for one in comparison when it comes to viruses. Google has tried to clean up their App Store but they still have a ways to go

3) fragmentation will always be a droid problem

Google wallet won't take off? What the heck are you talking about? It is available basically everywhere that takes a MasterCard. I've been working in the mobile industry for 5 years, I have several apps on iTunes and on Google Play. Your first point is simply not true, do not say something is a fact without backing it up. Anyone can throw out random numbers. Your second point is a joke. I don't know anyone who has ever gotten a virus through their android phone. Have you ever heard of this happening to someone you know? Lastly fragmentation is a myth. One phone being on an older version of android than another phone doesn't mean anything. Current apps will still work for future versions of android.

Well, Mr. Computer Guru, the real myth is that Google Wallet is a highly used system. Nope.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/05/paypal-destroys-google-wallet-mastercard-square-and-visa-in-digital-wallet-study/

Partnering wrote:

Well, Mr. Computer Guru, the real myth is that Google Wallet is a highly used system. Nope.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/05/paypal-destroys-google-wallet-mastercard-square-and-visa-in-digital-wallet-study/

I never said it was highly used by people. I said it was already available basically everywhere that takes a MasterCard.

Apple Investor wrote:

"Apple doesn’t save your transaction information. With Apple Pay, your payments are private. ..."

I find this highly humorous considering iCloud was just hacked and celebrity photos stolen.

Is your data safe with Apple?

You said "take off" which implies highly used. A products that is available everywhere but no one buys is not one that has "taken off" (successful).

uvuvojhb wrote:I've used it mostly at Best Buy.

I think this is all the info we need about the utility of google wallet...

Partnering wrote:

You said "take off" which implies highly used. A products that is available everywhere but no one buys is not one that has "taken off" (successful).

I meant take off in the sense that the product is already highly supported. I don't think you could even call this a product; it is more of a resource that has been freely available to many Android users for about 3 years. I don't see iOS users using it much more than Android users have. This is not something that is defined by how much it is used, it is something that is defined by how well it is supported. It is already supported very well for Android and I've been hoping iOS would get this feature for the last few years, but to say that it is somehow already better than what Android has had for a while now is just not true.